Hi There,

I have setup WebDav on my Apache server. It works nicely from within
Dreamweaver, however when I try to create a network place in XP or web
folder in IE6 it fails. In my apache logs I have the following errors:

[Thu Jun 27 22:56:14 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.3] File does not exist:
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_inf.html
[Thu Jun 27 22:56:14 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.3] File does not exist:
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc

I believe this is something to do with frontpage extentions... whatever they
are. Do they have to be present for XP to be able to read the webdav folder?

As I said, this webdav folder works great in Macromedia dreamweaver.

Can anyone help or is this just Microsoft way of trying to stop us using
Linux Apache etc.??????

Thanks for your help in advance.

Cheers
Jonathan

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Jonathan wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I have setup WebDav on my Apache server. It works nicely from within
> Dreamweaver, however when I try to create a network place in XP or web
> folder in IE6 it fails. In my apache logs I have the following errors:
>
> [Thu Jun 27 22:56:14 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.3] File does not exist:
> /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_inf.html
> [Thu Jun 27 22:56:14 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.3] File does not exist:
> /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
>
> I believe this is something to do with frontpage extentions... whatever they
> are. Do they have to be present for XP to be able to read the webdav folder?
>
> As I said, this webdav folder works great in Macromedia dreamweaver.
>
> Can anyone help or is this just Microsoft way of trying to stop us using
> Linux Apache etc.??????

This is a known thing. MS Webfolders tries to use Frontpage extensions first.
Only when they don't find it, as indicated by the 404 errors you see in the
log, they switch to using WebDAV.
BTW, this has nothing to do with XP. It is part of the Webfolder implementation.
Another thing you may run into with XP is if you want to use authentication
with your Webfolder. I have heard that that's broken in the Webfolder
implementation of XP.

-Joe

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Thanks for the info., Is there any work around? Hopefully it will get fixed
in SP1 for XP.

Cheers
Jonathan

"Joachim Feise" <jfeise@ics.uci.edu> wrote in message
news:3D1BF95F.1070806@ics.uci.edu...
> Jonathan wrote:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I have setup WebDav on my Apache server. It works nicely from within
> > Dreamweaver, however when I try to create a network place in XP or web
> > folder in IE6 it fails. In my apache logs I have the following errors:
> >
> > [Thu Jun 27 22:56:14 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.3] File does not
exist:
> > /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_inf.html
> > [Thu Jun 27 22:56:14 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.3] File does not
exist:
> > /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
> >
> > I believe this is something to do with frontpage extentions... whatever
they
> > are. Do they have to be present for XP to be able to read the webdav
folder?
> >
> > As I said, this webdav folder works great in Macromedia dreamweaver.
> >
> > Can anyone help or is this just Microsoft way of trying to stop us using
> > Linux Apache etc.??????
>
> This is a known thing. MS Webfolders tries to use Frontpage extensions
first.
> Only when they don't find it, as indicated by the 404 errors you see in
the
> log, they switch to using WebDAV.
> BTW, this has nothing to do with XP. It is part of the Webfolder
implementation.
> Another thing you may run into with XP is if you want to use
authentication
> with your Webfolder. I have heard that that's broken in the Webfolder
> implementation of XP.
>
> -Joe
>

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